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Excerpt from A Digest of the Law of Partnership
The present work was undertaken, in the first place, in order to supply the want of a concise work on the Law of Partnership: and if this were all, it would be needless to say much by way of introduction. But the form I have adopted invites, if it does not demand, some words of explanation; the adoption of it, moreover, commits the writer to certain opinions on matters of much wider range and importance than the subject actually handled. Those opinions are still far from being established, and one who attempts to exemplify them in practice is in some sort thereby bound to set forth his understanding of them, and to bear his part, however slight it may be, in their justification. My desire has been to follow to the best of my power the example set by Mr. Justice Stephen in his 'Digest of the Law of Evidence,' and repeated by him in the yet more weighty and difficult work of a 'Digest of the Criminal Law,' which has since been made the foundation of a Draft Code. This being said, it is almost superfluous to say that I agree with him in thinking the Indian Codes a desirable model for the exposition of English law, by authority if possible, but if and so far as that is too much to hope for, then by private endeavour; and that I likewise agree with the reasons which he has given for that opinion both in the introduction to his 'Digest of the Law of Evidence' and on various other occasions.
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